Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

10.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Greer, Germaine

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

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No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

28.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

33.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

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Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Carlyle, Thomas